Deadline: 15-Jan-22
SK Arts is offering grants under “Organizational Lite Stream” Program to support professional arts organizations and groups is directed through the Professional Arts Organizations Program (PAOP).
This program contributes to an eligible group or organization’s arts programs and services, governance, management, administration and operational function and provides multi-year support.
The Organizational Lite Stream is the entry point to the PAOP program, and all groups or organizations new to the program must apply to this stream first. Gallery and Media Arts Grants under the Professional Arts Organizations Program are supported by funding from Sask Lotteries through the partnership between SK Arts and SaskCulture Inc.
Funding Information
PAOP Organizational Lite Stream recipients:
- have a two-year funding cycle,
- receive maximum funding of $20,000 per year, and
- compete for their funding at each assessment, as funding resets to zero at the end of grant period.
Outcomes
The program provides support to professional arts organizations and groups to achieve outcomes that:
- advance the professional arts and artistic practices in Saskatchewan;
- create meaningful opportunities for broad and diverse public engagement with the professional arts;
- contribute to professional practice and strengthen the artistic life of Saskatchewan communities;
- advance, strengthen and sustain the arts ecology in Saskatchewan;
- reflect the diversity of the local community and the arts sector through authentic relationships with Indigenous peoples and other traditionally marginalized communities; and
- have program objectives that are aligned with the mandate and strategic priorities of SK Arts
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts organizations and groups with a professional arts mandate in the areas of research, creation, production, presentation, exhibition and publishing, and/or the development of professional artists or community engagement with their centre of operations in Saskatchewan.
- PAOP Organizational Lite Stream may support eligible arts groups or organizations that:
- are in good standing at SK Arts, i.e. in compliance with any SK Arts reporting, grant conditions and Concerned Status requirements; and
- have a demonstrated history of public programs and operations.
- Eligible Arts Groups or Organizations
- Work and mandate of the group or organization align with PAOP purpose.
- Produce, present or contribute to the creation and development of professional artists’ work. Professional artists are recognized by peers in their art form as meeting the following criteria:
- Professional training and/or acquired knowledge and experience in their art form
- An emerging body of independent work
- Compensation consistent with professional peers for their
- Engage the advice and expertise of arts professionals in the area of programming and administration
- Arts professionals have completed training through formal studies, mentorships or work experience, and are recognized by their peers as having reached the status of professional.
- Center of operations resides within Saskatchewan
- Have an articulated management structure
- Have financial accounting systems
For more information, visit https://sk-arts.ca/menu/grants/grants-by-type/arts-organizations/professional-arts-organizations-program.html